STAND. COM. REP. NO. 183

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 1146
                                        




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Water, Land and Hawaiian Affairs, to which
was referred S.B. No. 1146 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE HAWAIIAN HOMES COMMISSION
     ACT, 1920, AS AMENDED,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to allow a Hawaiian homestead
lessee to transfer the lessee's leasehold interest to a spouse,
child, or grandchild who is at least one-quarter Hawaiian.

     Testimony in support of the measure was received from the
Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, the State Council of Hawaiian
Homestead Associations, the Waimea Hawaiian Homesteaders'
Association, Inc., a spokesperson for the Aged Hawaiians, the
Ahupua`a `O Moloka`i members of the State Council of Hawaiian
Homestead Associations, and the Kawaihae Hawaiian Homes Community
Association.

     Your Committee finds that under existing law, a lessee of
Hawaiian home lands may designate a qualified relative to succeed
in the leasehold interest upon the death of the lessee.  The
measure would allow a lessee of Hawaiian home lands to transfer
homestead rights to a qualified relative while the lessee is
still living.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Water, Land and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to
this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and

 
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purpose of S.B. No. 1146 and recommends that it pass Second
Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Water, Land, and
                                   Hawaiian Affairs,



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                                   COLLEEN HANABUSA, Chair


 
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